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Handmade Foam Rose Flower Tutorial

Handmade foam roses

As most of my friends correctly commented in my last post ,my current craft obsession is home decor projects! And since I get only snatches of crafty time nowadays flower making seemed the best outlet for creative cravings!!Sharing my experiments in making handmade foam roses.

Handmade foam roses

Making the foam roses was rather easy and in fact a bit addictive so I ended up making a whole bouquet of foam roses!And yes sharing the handmade foam flower tutorial.

Foam rose tutorial

Materials required

Foam sheets- thin ones are easier to shape and look better as roses

Glue gun- this is indispensable unless you want to spend hours trying to stick slippery foam!!

Scissors- to cut and shape your petals

Petal template-My foam roses are made from tear drop shaped petals the width of my fingers.

Foam rose petal template

You can use your finger tip as a template for the petals and no need to make the petals all uniform as after all its a rose you are making and petals do differ in size and shape!!

Foam rose tutorial

Since I have a die cutting machine [bigshot],I die cut some pointy tipped flowers[Sizzix sizzlit die set 3 flower layers],rounded off the pointed tips, cut them up into petals .I didnt like the jagged edges so used the scissors to round off sharp edges.Please dont despair if you dont have a die cutting machine as its even more easy to hand cut the petals of your foam flowers.

Foam rose tutorial

To make a rosebud as shown above ,I used 1+2+4 = 7 petals.

To make the center of the bud roll a petal from the pointed tip as shown and apply a bit of hot glue to secure in place.

Foam rose tutorial

Glue this central roll atop another petal as shown in the picture of the foam rose tutorial

Foam rose tutorial

Glue one more petal as shown .Apply the hot glue only in the lower part as shown in the pic of the handmade flower tutorial

Foam rose tutorial

For the outer layer of the bud I used just 4 petals--your number may vary depending on your petal size and how you glue the petals of your foam rose

Foam rose tutorial

The trick in gluing the outer petals is to just apply a dot of glue at the lower half of the petal and press just this lower part onto the central bud using your fingers as shown in the picture of the foam flower tutorial.

Foam rose tutorial

If you put too much glue on the petal it will seep out and burn your fingers when you squeeze so err on the safer side! This tutorial actually is in many ways similar to this clay rose tutorial shared earlier.Here is the completed handmade foam rose.

Foam rose tutorial

Keep adding more petals to this bud and you get a fuller foam rose flower.

Handmade foam flowers

Also sharing how I made the bouquet of roses.I initially handcut the sepals of the roses from green foam sheets but I somehow didnt enjoy that so later used a Sizzix star die and cut out some stars and reshaped them into sepals for my foam roses.

Foam flower tutorial

I inserted thin metal sticks into the foam roses and secured the sepals in place using the glue gun.Finally wrapped floral tape around the flower stems and twisted on some fabric leaves to make my bouquet of handmade foam flowers.

Handmade foam flowers

Wondering what are those huge cream flowers...? Well they are handmade flowers too ...from a peculiar material called sola wood! Will soon be sharing a tutorial on how to make sola wood flowers.

Sola wood flowers

I have seen foam roses on sale at many shops and online too and for those crafters who like to save a penny /craft for business ..making your own foam roses is super economical..I made the whole bouquet of roses using just a single A 4 sheet of pink foam[cost less than 10 rupees!!]

138 comments:

gorgeous flowers Dr.sonia........it'll surely make ur new home look lovely n beautiful. Thanks for the tute. BTW i did teach dis foam rose to kids in a kid-friendly way without glue gun (used toothpick) & we used circle shapes for the petal. But urs is way far gorgeous Dr. Sonia.Hav a good day

You always make such beautiful flowers. Wish I had the patience to make my flowers! Tutorial is so well explained. Thanks for sharing. Those sola wood flowers look gorgeous..waiting for that tutorial :)

Wow Sonia ji those are incredible! Never tried it...,though I have quite an experience with the sola wood flowers,but the ones u created with them looks awesomely lovely and am waiting eagerly for your next tutorial about it :)

wow..another gogeous creation....now u r truly back in form.....lol....loved the foam roses n those sola wood blooms....beautiful.....but can u pls share the thickness of foam sheet u hv used in these roses n also in those foam cala lilies...n this sola wood is known by which name in local markets...thanks for sharing all your creations with us in so well explained manner.

Shalu I have seen thick type of foam at Itsy Bitsy which is more expensive and good for stand alone flowers but not too easy to make roses with. I got the thin type from a local super market by some Chinese company so no mention of millimeter thickness is there. Any type of foam you see do buy it if an A 4 sheet works out for 10 or less rupees.I have seen big rolls of the foam sheets in a local Bangalore market called Raja market too but they had limited colors.

Shalu sola wood is ethnic to India as its made from tapioca peel.It is called sola wood only.Try your local fancy shop which sells flower making supplies. Sola wood crafts were supposedly popular in crafting circles in India some time back and later fell into oblivion. I picked up a roll from Itsy Bitsy but they no longer have it.

Hello Dr. Tutorial is awesome as always and stepwise pictures step makes it understand so easy. I locally bought these foam roses but never thought of making them.Now will try it out. Recently I made tutorial as part of my DT posts and I realized how difficult it is to take pics while working and that too of every single step. Hats off to you do Dr. You totally rocks with your tutorial.

Oh yes Poornima..taking photos for tutorials is very time consuming and when its for small things such as flowers..focussing itself takes a good chunk!! But I guess my readers have come to expect tutorials from me and I feel I cant let them down.For the very few posts in which I dont post a tutorial..I invariably get lot of tutorial requests!!

Wow and amazing is all I can think of.That bouquet looks fantastic and of course the tutorial is so well written.You are a master at making flowers,I must say!Love those sola wood flowers.Looking forward to the tutorial and also where you get the material from.:-)

Pallavi I got the sola wood in rolls from Itsy Bitsy bangalore branch quite some time back but I dont think they have it online.Do try in local fancy stores as I think it is a popular craft with Indian ladies as its made from tapioca peel ethnic to India after all !!!

Oh my word Sonia, these are positively stunning! You're so clever with these kinds of projects. Would never have imagined the potential of that die, I have the same one! Thanks so much for playing along ItsyBitsy's Sizzix Tutorial Challenge. All the very best!ItsyBitsy - The Blog Place

these look awesome Sonia. Its been quite a while since I bought foam sheets and didnt know that they came in pink. The whole arrangement looks really professional. Where did you get sola wood sheets from?

Divya you get foam in all kinds of colors . I picked up sola wood from Itsy Bitsy months back but I am not sure they stock it now.Try local fancy stores.Since sola wood is ethnic to India being made from tapioca peels..I think you should be able to source it locally.

My name is Rogério Toledo, and am starting a Blog cahamado http://artesanatoviabrasil.blogspot.com.br/, which I intend to put all kinds of craft work from my country and also people who love handicrafts in any anywhere in the world.

I found many interesting articles on your blog and would traduzi'los and adapts them for my readers, that is if you allow me. is clear that the credits estaram on your behalf. but I need your permission.

I did a test and not yet published, because I'm still creating various items for only then put online.

If you liked it and let me disclose, want to be your companion at work here in Brazil, so we can disclose one another's work.

Ok! thank you very much and certainly do so by sending the direct link to your blog. But believe me (laughs) My Country is well lazy to read blog in another language, so I asked the translation and put the original site and links throughout the project. But I understand and will abide by your wish. Thank you for authorization.

Hi as said in my previous comments i did a whole bouquet of roses for my mom's birthday...I linked my post to your blog for tutorial... Thank you ... My mom liked the bouquet... here is a link to my posthttp://shilpakari.blogspot.com/2014/03/foam-rose-bouquet.html

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